From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:17:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83zilztro9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5a44a850-e4fc-4c9f-a266-c74766810ba1@default> <1807679d-1125-4afe-81b7-b8d8e78aa2c6@default> <9f1cf1a7-6f05-449a-a4a2-c013cf326e9c@default> <6c7a705c-c810-49ec-a70c-376ba150205e@default> <8337jsx3tl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476947986 13749 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2016 07:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 09:19:41 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7db-0002m1-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:19:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7dd-0007wN-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7cG-0007S0-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7cB-0005Fa-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7cB-0005FR-Bl; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4679 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bx7cA-00038Q-Hv; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:18:11 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:18:59 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208526 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:18:59 -0400 > > >> Most probably, because "hook" is a general-purpose word freely used in > >> general discourse. I don't see how can we avoid that without having > >> complicated confusing text in the manual. > > > Let's try it and see what changes would be required. > > FWIW, I'm not eve sure the confusion comes from the manual. > The informal use of `hook` to which I was referring is one I use and see > in email mostly. It's very widespread, AFAICT, but that doesn't mean > the manual isn't more careful. Exactly my thoughts, yes.